May 15, 2014

Pencil Extender

It's for your regular pencil when it gets down to the very end and you don’t want to throw it away yet.

I use a lot of Prismacolor Col-Erase pencils. They're not super-expensive but art supplies can add up and I hate to waste anything.

My General Pencil Co. extender — "The Miser" — has kept dozens of Col-Erases alive beyond what would have been an early retirement.

I've not tried it with any other pencils so I can’t comment on how well it does on a classic No. 2 or a Mirado Black Warrior. I do like it much better than the fancier-looking aluminum-bodied extender I tried around a year ago. That one was a bit too lightweight: once a pencil is worn down to a nub, I like the extender to add a bit of heft.